Rate My Professor Ann-Marie Blanchard

Following her doctoral work, Blanchard spent a decade in the United States, where she directed a Liberal Arts program at Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, emphasizing diverse global literature, philosophy, and theology. She taught creative writing at institutions including the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women (2018) and Milwaukee Men’s Incarceration Facility (2015), and acted as Fiction Editor for cream city review (2014–2018). Her academic interests include creative writing, the philosophy of literature, aesthetics, postcolonial studies, embodiment, risk, addiction, and faith. She has delivered conference papers such as “The strong woman of Tim Winton’s Breath” (American Association of Australasian Literary Studies, 2021) and “Girls gone gaga: Catholic women, catastrophe, and redemption” (Durham University, 2018). Key publications feature the short story “Trouble Will Find You,” winner of the 2022 Missouri Review Editors’ Prize in Fiction (published 2023), poems in The Georgia Review (“Menagerie Eulogy” and “Life After,” Spring 2025), Palette Poetry (“Lovers on Fire in a Boat,” 2025), and Overland (“The Killer in Me,” 2024), as well as the book chapter “The Play of Style” in Rhetorical Approaches to College Writing (2015). Notable honors include a Pushcart Prize nomination (“Fidelity’s Bonefires,” 2023), shortlist for the ACU Prize for Poetry (“We Are Half Sky,” 2024), and various chapbook longlists and shortlists.